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Jephson.— SHAKESPEARE'S "TEMPEST." With Glossarial 

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Kington-Oliphant.— THE SOURCES OF STANDARD 

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Martin.— THE POET'S HOUR: Poeti7 Selected and Aminged 

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Masson (Gustave). — a compendious dictionary 



OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE (French- English and English- 

 French). Followed by a List of the Principal Diverging Deriva- 

 tions, and preceded by Chronological and Historical Tables. By 

 Gustave Masson, Assistant-Master and Librarian, Harrow 

 School. Square half-bound, ts. 

 This volume, though cast in the same form as other dictionaries, has 

 several distinctive features which increase its value for the student. In the 

 French- English fart, etymologies, founded on the researches of Messrs. 

 Litirl, Scheler, and Bracket, are given. The list of diverging deriva- 

 tions, at the end of the volume, will be very useful to those _ who are 

 interested in tracing the variozis developments of original Latin words. 

 But that which makes it almost indispensable to students of the political 

 and literary history of France, is to be found at the beginning oj the work, 

 where M. Masson has drawn up clear and complete tables of historical 

 events, viewed in connection with the developments of literatU7-e and lan- 

 guage, between the death of Charlemagne, 814 A.t)., and that of Louis 

 Philippe, 1850. These tables are illustrated by remarks on the various 

 social moods, of which the works produced were the expression. Appended 

 also is a list of the principal Chronicles and Memoirs on the History of 

 France which have appeared up to the p-esent tinu; the French Re- 

 publican Calendar, compared with tlie Gregorian ; and a Chronological 

 list of the principal French Newspapers published during the Revolution 

 and the First Empire. 



